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U.S. Representative French Hill (R-2nd District) is the latest member of Arkansas's House delegation to back President Trump's refugee order while calling for peeling back restrictions on green card holders and others. Hill issued a statement on Monday afternoon. "While modest inconveniences are acceptable in order to keep our homeland safe, blocking U.S. green card holders, students and… Read more »

Arkansas's congressional delegation is lining up to support President Donald Trump's moves to revive the Dakota Access and Keystone XL pipelines. President Trump utilized the power of executive orders on Tuesday to expedite reviews of the projects and re-start processes halted or delayed by former President Obama. Following Trump's moves U.S. Representative French Hill, of the 2nd… Read more »

President Donald Trump signed executive orders Tuesday to revive the Dakota Access and Keystone XL oil pipelines. He also signed an executive order to expedite environmental reviews of other infrastructure projects, lamenting the existing "incredibly cumbersome, long, horrible permitting process." "The regulatory process in this country has become a tangled-up mess," he said. Many of… Read more »

An energy project that is sharply opposed by members of the all-Republican Arkansas congressional delegation was on President Donald Trump's pre-inauguration "priority list" of "emergency and national security projects," according to a document obtained by the Kansas City Star and released Tuesday. A spokesman for the president cautioned late Tuesday that the list is not a White House… Read more »

LITTLE ROCK — President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed executive orders to advance the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipeline projects, a move that was hailed by members of Arkansas’ congressional delegation and criticized by the Arkansas Sierra Club. “The fact that this was one of the first items on President Trump’s agenda speaks volumes about how his… Read more »

Outta the woods and into the mainstream.  Here come the Hungarians. A post-inaugural reception the day after President Donald J. Trump took the oath of office drew transition team representatives and members of Congress to the future home of the Hungarian embassy. It was a high-regard tip of the hat to the new Trump Administration.  Even, a Hungarian dog showed love. Rep. Don… Read more »

Before standing on the U.S. Capitol lawn to watch Friday's inauguration, scores of Arkansans had a pre-dawn breakfast with their congressmen. The four House members from Arkansas, all Republicans, teamed up to provide the meal. "We wanted them to have a cup of coffee and something warm before they go out and face the elements," U.S. Rep. French Hill of Little Rock said. The gathering… Read more »

rkansas’ four members of the House of Representatives voted with their Republican majority Friday for a 2017 budget resolution that paves the way for the repeal of the Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obamacare. Voting for the resolution were 1st District Rep. Rick Crawford, Jonesboro; 2nd District Rep. French Hill, Little Rock; 3rd District Rep. Steve Womack, Rogers; and… Read more »

President Donald Trump’s aides are moving to fill in some important remaining blanks in his financial and economic lineups, eyeing a crisis-era Treasury Department official to become a top banking regulator, and a banker-turned-lawmaker for the No. 2 job at the Treasury. David Nason, a Treasury official under President George W. Bush who now leads GE Energy Financial Services, has… Read more »

David Nason, a General Electric executive and former Treasury Department official, is the front runner to become the Federal Reserve's top Wall Street regulator under President-elect Donald Trump, sources familiar with the screening said on Thursday. Nason leads GE's Energy Financial Services division, which funds worldwide energy development, mostly from thermal and renewable… Read more »